Bo Burnham Quotes

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

I wanted to be a comedian.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

I had a standup act, and I ended up turning it into something that was really watered down and accessible. Something that went from scary and threatening to something that was almost to the point of being corny.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.